Medical Simulation Corporation Partners with HealthStream to Distribute SimSuite Online Courseware
Denver, February 25, 2011—Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) announces a new partnership with HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) to distribute a selection of SimSuite online courseware through the HealthStream Learning Center™. HealthStream and MSC share a mission of improving patient safety through increased clinical competence and confidence of the healthcare workforce.
“SimSuite online courses support the continuity of best practice-based training for healthcare professionals within a single hospital, or across multiple healthcare systems,” says Bill Younkes, MSC president and CEO. “Our partnership with HealthStream will help deliver SimSuite research-based patient safety education to healthcare providers nationwide.”
SimSuite online courses address patient safety and quality challenges to improve the competence and confidence® of all healthcare providers in providing high-quality patient care.
The courses may be completed on their own, and also prepare providers for hands-on SimSuite simulation training. The following SimSuite courses are now available through HealthStream:
- Stroke
- Sepsis Comprehensive
- Sepsis Concise
- Central Line Management
- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- Door-to-Balloon Time
- Decompensated Heart Failure
- Venous Thromboembolism: DVT/PE
- ECG Fundamentals
- Coronary Anatomy
As the leader in hospital-based online healthcare education, HealthStream delivers outcomes based training results to organizations through learning solutions used by approximately 2.45 million healthcare professionals. Visit HealthStream at www.healthstream.com/MSC for more information about available SimSuite courses.
About Medical Simulation Corporation
Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) is a recognized healthcare industry leader in providing full-service simulation training and education services to healthcare personnel, medical societies and medical product manufacturers. MSC’s quality and patient safety solutions are designed to strengthen the competence and confidence of nurses, physicians and technologists. Through its network of training platforms, MSC provides customized training services to any location worldwide. For more information, visit www.medsimulation.com.
About HealthStream
HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is a leading provider of research and learning solutions for the healthcare industry, transforming insight into action to deliver outcomes-based results for healthcare organizations. Through HealthStream’s learning solutions—which have been contracted by approximately 2.45 million hospital-based healthcare professionals—healthcare organizations create safer environments for patients, increase clinical competencies of their workforces, and facilitate the rapid transfer of the latest knowledge and technologies. Through our research products, executives from healthcare organizations gain valuable insight about patients’ experiences, workforce challenges, physician relations, and community perceptions of their services. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthStream has an additional office in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information about HealthStream’s learning and research solutions, visit www.healthstream.com.